"The literary department has been superintended by E.T. Bennett ... who has arranged for the press the whole of the materials collected from various and authentic sources"--Introduction
Colophon: Chiswick: Printed by Charles Whittingham
In 1831 the collection of animals in the Tower was presented by the King to the Zoological Society of London--Cf. Peel, Zoological gardens of Europe, 1903, p. 180
Title vignette
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SCNHRB copy (39088013488317) blind-embossed on 3rd leaf: Smithsonian Institution National Museum
SCNHRB copy quarter bound in green sheepskin and yellow paper boards, title in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers; housed in an archival cardboard box